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CAPTAIN KIRK wanted us to believe that space is the final frontier, but here on Earth there is still plenty of frontier left, even if its existence in an age of globalisation and overpopulation is increasingly imaginary. The American West ended officially in 1890 when the US Superintendent of the Census declared that the frontier "cannot any longer have a place in the census reports", but the western as a cultural phenomenon continues to thrive in ways that are pervasive, subversive and surprising.
Two widely lauded recent films, The Proposition and Brokeback Mountain, are proof that as a genre the western is alive and well, despite the many reports of its ...